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Based on the system-reservoir description, we propose a simple solvable microscopic model for a nonequilibrium bath. This captures the essential features of a nonstationary quantum Markov process. We establish an appropriate generalization of the fluctuation-dissipation relation pertaining to this process and explore the essential modifications of the Bloch equations to reveal the nonexponential decay of the Bloch vector components and transient spectral broadening in resonance fluorescence. We discuss a simple experimental scheme to verify the theoretical results.
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Received: 12 November 1998 / Received in final form: 21 January 1999
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Chaudhuri, J., Banik, S., Deb, B. et al. Modified Bloch equations in the presence of a nonstationary bath. Eur. Phys. J. D 6, 415–424 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00021626
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00021626